On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:09:36 +0400, Christian Stoller <stol...@leonex.de>
wrote:
Hi internals,
what do you think about improving the modification functionality of the
DateTime class. I always get a cold shiver, when I write something like
this:
<?php
$date = new DateTime()
$date->modify(‘+15 day’);
In my opinion it would be nicer if one could write:
$date->modify(15, DateTime::INTERVAL_DAY); // for adding 15 days
$date->modify(-15, DateTime::INTERVAL_DAY); // for subtracting 15 days
Even better would be to have methods like addDays(), addMonths(), etc.
This would make it cleaner and more readable. You do not have to do
something like this:
$date = new DateTime();
$date->modify(getDaysToAddMethod() . " day"); // I am not sure if a '+'
sign is needed if the value is positive
And it is fully backward compatible.
Best regards
Christian
Hi,
I think we shouldn't improve this functionality because modifying date
object in the first place is bad idea. Think about it as monatomic object,
like integer, you can't create new integer object of 42 and then just
change its value - it will be another object.
As a workaround you could create your own date class, extend it from
\DateTime and add what you want.
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